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I'm making a trojan detection program which will tell you whats connected to your computer, allows you to block IP's form connecting to your computer, Full netstats, and more. But since I really don't want to learn C++ I need a simple and effective code to make it in. Now I've started in VB 6 but I'm wondering if it would be worth while to move to VB. NET. Is VB.NET better? or should I stick with VB 6 for now?

To be honest, VB .Net, based on .Net Framework, has better Windows integration, and more importantly, easy access to Windows core functions (I think you may need this a lot). For example, registry accessing requires quite a few API calls, and you need to take care of things more than just calling those functions. But in VB .Net, it's been wrapped as Classes and things are a lot easier.

Still there are some disadvantages indeed, for example:
1. VB 6 and VB .Net is very different (I bet, more different than most of you think) when it comes to system-related programming. Re-learn
2. If you prepare to distribute your program, your users have to have .net redistributable package installed - that is not a small file. Usually a user wouldn't want to download a file 20MB+ large, for a small tool.

I'd personally use VB6 the run-times are smaller and most computers have them. As Mnjul said the .Net Framework is 20MB+ (23). VB.Net is better but some users may be limited

Thanks, I'll stick with VB untill I feel like learning C++ (Which won't be for awhile now) o and have any of you (Mnjul, or  spokes25) read my post on UserControls? Would you know how to access A UserControl's objects. Like for example:

UserControl4.TextBox1.Text = Form1.TextBox1.Text

OR

UserControl4.TextBox1.Text = UserControl2.Label1.Caption


Just a question, I need to know how for my program. Thats why I thought of swiching to .NET in hope it would help me with that. But I guess there has to be a way to do it in VB.

I think you should add member functions to user controls, like this...

This is UserControl2's member function. Assume it has a Checkbox named Check1

Public Function GetCheck1Caption() As String
    GetCheck1 = Check1.Caption
End Function


And in Form code you just... (uc2Control is a UserControl2)

'blahblah...
    Whatever=uc2Control.GetCheck1Caption
'blahblah...



I know it's a little bit troublesome (even strange). Actually, if you use VB.Net, this can be easier with its full OOP support.

The only problem with that is it wont let you go from Control to Control only from Form to Control.

Well...

Member function:
Public Sub SetCheck1Caption(NewCap As String)
    Check1.Caption = NewCap
End Sub

And then use something like this
uc1Blah.SetCheck1Caption uc2Blah.GetLabel1Caption()

Humm well,

This is what I can do with the code:
(From a usercontrol) Text1.text = Form1.text

This is what I can't do (and that I need to do):
UserControl3.Text5.text = Text4.text (From a Form)
(From Control to Control) (From a Control) Text1.text = UserControl3.Text4.text (To a Control)

Basicly I need it so I can change stuff in a Control from a form and to change stuff from a control in another control.

Thanks for all your help so far I hope you can tell me what I need.

As I said, I think you should use member functions. Those child-controls have been wrapped and I don't think there's a way to access them directly. Are you sure that you want to use UserControls, instead of Forms with instances (Dim AForm as New frmFormTemplate)?

I'm sorry but I'm fairly new at VB, I know most things but not Instances or member functions. If you don't mind do you think you could explain a little more about those?

Thanks!

EDIT:
When I first started my program I needed somehting simple and quick to add into my main Form. So I used UserControls. Now I really dont want to add all my user controls to my main Form because of name conflicts. Like in UserControl1 I got Command1 and Text1 and so does my main Form. So I really don't want to rename all my objects and edit all my code to sute. That would be ALOT of work for me. Since i'm almost done this program I need a solution to fix this little problem I have got myself into. Any Sugestions.